Nearly 14,000 years after breaking free and rushing headlong into the Pacific Ocean, Glacial Lake Missoula continues to influence life in its namesake valley – and beyond.

A 2020 glacial lake outburst flood in British Columbia, Canada, caused a tsunami of water about 330 feet high, but no one was hurt.

The deadly flood in Nepal's Bhote Koshi River that killed at least nine people and left more than two dozen missing this week ...

On the night of October 3-4, 2023, thousands of people living along the Teesta River in Sikkim and West Bengal, India, had to urgently evacuate their homes as a surge of water and debris rushed ...

Glacial Lake Missoula was metastable and its ice dam released episodic megafloods, whereas glacial Lake Columbia was stable and did not drain through its ice dam.

Nick Drader from Compass Heli Tours runs glacier kayaking tours. He flies to a glacial lake near the Cascade Mountains in British Columbia over waterfalls, rivers, and mountains. The tours are ...

In 2020, a 330-foot-tall wave burst from a glacial lake in British Columbia, Canada, but no one was hurt. In the Cordillera Blanca mountain range in Peru, floods from glacier lake outbursts have ...

A rush of water unleashed by an ailing glacier swelled an Alaska river to record levels Tuesday causing unprecedented flooding in Juneau nearly a year to the date of a similar destructive event.

At least two buildings have been destroyed and residents of others have been evacuated in Juneau after flooding caused by water coming from a glacier-dammed lake, officials said Sunday. The ...

Downstream from glacial Lake Missoula, the Columbia River was dammed by another ice lobe, forming glacial Lake Columbia. When Lake Missoula’s outburst floods poured into Lake Columbia, the water ...

A crane hoists a two-bedroom cabin off a flatbed truck at the Rising Sun Campground in Glacier National Park on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. A dozen Columbia Falls High School students built the cabin ...

A 2020 glacial lake outburst flood in British Columbia, Canada, caused a tsunami of water about 330 feet high, but no one was hurt.